Thursday the World Health Organization (WHO) he has declared that the spread of monkeypox is no longer an international health emergency, which is the most serious definition for a health threat in use. Monkeypox is a disease caused by a virus belonging to the same family as smallpox, the virus MPXV (Monkeypox virus), but which should not be confused with the much more risky smallpox, which is a disease declared eradicated in 1980.
The WHO had declared monkeypox an international health emergency last July, after more than 10,000 cases of contagion in about 70 countries around the world in the space of a couple of months. In recent months, infections have decreased significantly, also thanks to vaccinations for those most at risk, until they have almost completely disappeared, said the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday.
